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Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas
24 June
1.30pm-2pm: Registration
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
2pm: Welcome
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:
Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810
Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System
Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870)
Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong
25 June
Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30am
Chair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty
William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator
Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China, 1930–1949
Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta, 1930s to the early 1950s
Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pm
Chair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage, Business Narratives, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta, 1870-1930
Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China
Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pm
Chair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows
Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee, Shaw Brothers, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD), Singapore, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD), 1930–1970
Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong, Chaoshan, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War
Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pm
Location: Lecture Hall, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University)
The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow, Banking and Monetary Changes, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic
26 June
Panel 5: 9.30am-11am
Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension
Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu
Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen, China
Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pm
Chairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
